Banking for People : : Social Banking and New Poverty, Consumer Debts and Unemployment in Europe - National Reports / / ed. by Janet Ford, Udo Reifner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Auclair, Elizabeth,; Balz, Manfred,; Bourgoignie, Thierry,; Böhmcker, Susanne,; Caplovitz, David,; Conaty, Pat,; Dabson, Brian,; Dauncey, Guy,; Dejemeppe, Pierre,; Domont-Naert, Françoise,; Eichler-Weiskorn, Thomas,; Ekins, Paul,; Ford, Janet,; Freytag, Harald,; Galdos Loyola, Elena,; Gibson, Tony,; Godschalk, Hugo T. C.,; Graf, Georg,; Gründler, Peter,; Hanak, Gerhard,; Huls, Nick J.H.,; Huls, Nick,; Jan Schep, Gerrit,; Johnson, Simon,; Kaatz, Ruth,; Kauukonen, Katariina,; Kruse, John,; Martin, Chantal,; Mattfeldt, Harald,; Mayer, Gottfried,; Mitchell, Jeremy,; Mitter, Gemot,; Morawetz, Inge,; Morin, Anne,; Nagel, K.P.,; Ortiz de Zarate, Antonio Matías,; Petter Graver, Hans,; Reifner, Udo,; Reis, Claus,; Repl, Jutta,; Robertson, James,; Rodrigues, Peter R.,; Rothschild, Kurt W.,; Schulz-Rackoll, Rolf,; Schönbauer, Ulrich,; Shapiro, Joan,; Simpson, Robin,; Spagnole, John A.,; Sönksen, Inken,; Vogler, Heinz,; Wilhelmsson, Thomas,; Wimmer, Sigrid,; Woodall, Phil,
• HerausgeberIn: Ford, Janet,; Reifner, Udo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: Reprint 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (672 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents in Brief
• Contents
• General Introduction
• European Declaration for Social Consumer Rights
• Volume I: Social Banking and New Poverty
• Part I: Economic Development and Private Indebtedness
• Chapter 1. Social Banking and New Poverty - Towards a New Approach in Law and Economics
• Chapter 2. Towards a Progressive Market
• Chapter 3. Economics and social problems
• Chapter 4. Consumer Credit and Human Capital in Germany
• Chapter 5. Credit, Debt and Financial Control in Great Britain
• Chapter 6. Financial Services - Who Will Gain from the Single Market?
• Part II: New Technologies and Consumer Debts
• Chapter 7. Credit Cards, New Technology and Consumer Debt
• Chapter 8. Indebtedness by Credit Cards in the Federal Republic of Germany?
• Chapter 9. Credit Card Mania in America
• Part III: Trade Unions, Consumer Unions and the Poor
• Chapter 10. Whose Agenda? Whose Resources? Whose Initiative?
• Chapter 11. Trade-Unions, Unemployment and the Unemployed in Germany
• Chapter 12. Consumer Organizations and the Struggle Against Poverty - The Example of Konsumenten Kontakt in the Netherlands
• Chapter 13. Credit for Poor People - Abolishing or Solving the Problem?
• Part IV: Ethical Banking - New Forms of a Social Market Economy
• Chapter 14. Ethical Banking
• Chapter 15. Alternative Banking and Ethical Investment
• Chapter 16. Bright Ideas and Empty Pockets: Overview of Development Banking in the UK
• Chapter 17. Shorebank Corporation: A Private Sector Banking Initiative to Renew Distressed Communities
• Chapter 18. The Mondragon Bank and the Cooperative Movement in Euskadia
• Chapter 19. Socially Directed Investment - And its Potential Role in Local Development
• Part V. Social Discrimination and Over-Indebtedness
• Chapter 20. Changing Labour Market Structures and Over-Indebtedness
• Chapter 21. Indebtedness of Offenders
• Chapter 22. Divorce and Consumer Debts in Germany: The Unequal Allocation of Risks Between Women and Men
• Part VI: Housing Debts
• Chapter 23. Introduction
• Chapter 24. Mortgage Loans: Some Consumer Concerns
• Chapter 25. Buyers of Residential Property - Their Situation in the Province of Grande-Synthe
• Chapter 26. Distressed Constructional Financing
• Chapter 27. Mortgage Debt in the United Kingdom
• Part VII: Personal Bankruptcy
• Chapter 28. Personal Bankruptcy in America
• Chapter 29. Discharge for Bankrupt Individuals under the German Bankruptcy Law Reform
• Chapter 30. Prospects for Statutory Consumer Debts Arrangement in the Netherlands
• Volume II: Overdebtedness, Unemployment and Policy Responses - National Reports
• Chapter 31. The Social Costs of Europe - General Report on Consumer Debts in Europe
• Chapter 32. Debts and Depression - A Survey of Austrian Debtors and the Unemployed
• Chapter 33. Consumer Credit in Belgium - Old Laws and New Problems
• Chapter 34. Unemployment, Debt and the Legal Principle of 'Social Force Majeure' in Finland
• Chapter 35. Minimum Wages, Rate Ceilings and Social Solidarity against Poverty - Unemployment and Consumer Debts in France
• Chapter 36. The Private Debt Crisis in a Prosperous Environment: Germany
• Chapter 37. Private and Public Concerns - Unemployment, Credit and Debt in Britain: An Overview
• Chapter 38. From Savings to Credit - Unemployment and Consumer Debts in Italy
• Chapter 39. Careful Lenders and Social Security - Trends in Unemployment, Consumer Credit and Debt in the Netherlands
• Chapter 40. Legal Protection for the Overindebted and Unemployed in Norway
• Chapter 41. Poverty and Debts - The Situation of Welfare Recipients and Debtors in Default in Sweden
• Chapter 42. 'Good' and 'Bad' Debts - Debtors' Protection and Pressure for Reform in Switzerland
• Chapter 43. Consumer Credit Protection for Low Risk Consumers in a Free Market Economy - The US-Consumer Credit Protection Law
• Bibliography
• Addresses of Associations and Institutions which Support Social Banking
• Authors
• Index
• Index: Names and Organisations
• Backmatter